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The Laverne Cox Show

The Spirituality of Club Culture w/ Honey Dijon

The Laverne Cox Show

Shondaland Audio and iHeartPodcasts

Education, Society & Culture

4.6770 Ratings

🗓️ 7 September 2023

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

DJ and Grammy award-winning producer Honey Dijon shares her wisdom, knowledge and philosophy of why nightclubs are like churches and temples.

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0:00.0

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Because now they could listen to one audiobook title a month from an enormous library of popular audiobook titles, including romanticity,

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0:28.4

listening. Terms apply. Welcome to the Laverne Cox Show, a production of Shondaland audio in partnership

0:36.0

with IHeart Radio.

0:49.1

And I say you are not a DJ until you have DJed to a room of black queens standing there with their arms folded, looking at you, say, I'm waiting for you to turn them out.

0:50.9

And those girls are unforgiving.

0:54.5

So one of the things that I say, you are not a DJ until you play to the children in New York, because if you do not turn them, you're out. Work. You're out.

1:03.5

Hello, everyone, and welcome to the Laverne Cox Show. I'm Laverne Cox.

1:08.9

Oh, okay, I'm so excited. I'm squealingne Cox. Oh!

1:12.9

Okay, I'm so excited.

1:18.2

I'm squealing because I get to talk to my old friend, my dear friend,

1:29.2

the now Grammy award-winning producer, DJ, fashion designer, historian, living legend, Honey Dijon.

1:33.9

This was an historic year at the Grammys.

1:37.5

Kim Petris won, and a lot of people have been talking about her as the first openly transperist in Win a Grammy.

1:40.2

She's not Wendy Carlos.

1:41.9

Won a Grammy in, I think, the late 1960s for electronic music,

1:45.8

interestingly enough. And Honey Dijon also won a Grammy, and she is an openly transgender

1:51.0

woman as well. And that just makes me so excited. It's really interesting thinking about

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